R160.00

Easy Guide to Landscape Design for the Home Owner

Landscape designing isn't so much about rules that guarantee creation of
the 'perfect design every time', but rather about a series of guidelines and suggestions that will
help you save time and money,
as well as generally reduce the frustrations resulting from many design
forms.

Landscape Design for the Home Owner is a book filled with such
guidelines, some for the new home
owner to help with the many 'first time garden' situations and pitfalls
that tend to arise, as well as some for
the more experienced home owner who is being challenged with
alterations, changes in garden styles or
themes or simply looking at old sites in a new light.

Combine this with dozens of ideas, plant and hard landscape suggestions,
as well as numerous beautiful
photographs, it becomes a book that will help the informed, adventurous,
beginner or even laid-back home
owner to create beautiful and distinctive surroundings to their homes.

Beautifully and simply set out, it takes the home owner through a series
of logical yet important steps
intended to make garden designing a joy rather than a mystery or
frustration - dealing with such aspects as site analysis, plant functions and choices, hard landscape options,
thoughts on garden revamping,
as well as realistic scenarios for costing a project and pointers on
where to find professional assistance if
stuck with a problem. Aspects such as water-saving concepts, ways to
encourage wild life, and thoughts
on environmental or regional approaches to garden design are also
included. A list of current invader
plants and useful contacts in South Africa are also included for the
reader's convenience.

Landscape Design for the Home Owner is a must-have book for any home
owner with
a garden space that needs designing or perhaps redesigning.

About the author: LYNTON JOHNSON has been involved in the
landscape design and
horticultural industry in South Africa and internationally for more than
40 years. Dedicated
to teaching the joys of gardening in all its forms, this is his fifth
publication during his long
and interesting career as a landscape designer, writer, lecturer,
consultant and author.